Case for smokers&#39; pipes.



No. 630.756. Patented Aug. 8, I899. J. H. TIERNEY.

CASE FOR SMOKERS PIPES.

(App 1; nflldFb a 1898) (No Model.)

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JOHN H. TIERNEY, OF LEVISTON, MAINE.

CASE FOR SMOKERS PIPES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 630,756, dated August 8, 1899.

Application filed February 3, 1898. Serial No. 663,912. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN H. TIERNEY, a citizen of the United States, residingin Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Cases for Smokers Pipes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts. s

This invention relates to a tobacco-pipe case for use by smokers, and of that class in which two members are hinged together and adapted to receive the bowl and attached stem of the pipe, and has for its object to provide the case with a device by which the mouth of the bowl of the pipe may be closed substantially tight when the pipe is in the case, whereby the ashesin the bowl are prevented from falling out into the case.

Another feature of this invention consists in providing the case with an adjustable device for engaging the stem of the pipe, whereby pipes of different sizes may be firmly held in said case.

These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 represents in section and elevation a pipe-case embodying this invention with a pipe therein; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a section of a modification to be referred to.

The pipe-case herein shown as embodying this invention comprises two parts or members a a, hinged together as at a a and each provided with a bowl-receiving portion 2 and stem -receiving portion 3 to receive the complete pipe I). The member a has attached to its top or upper wall 4 a cover or valve 1), preferably of circular form, and which may be composed of asbestos, wood, metal, or other suitable material, the said cover being adapted to close the mouth of the bowl of the. pipe substantially tight to prevent the ashes falling out of the pipe into the case when the latter is closed and inverted.

The cover or valve b may be automatically held to its seat, which is the mouth of the bowl of the pipe, as by means of a spring b encircling a stem or rod 19 extended through a guide-piece b attached to the case and provided with a nut b, which may be adjustable on the threaded end of the rod b and which acts to secure the valve to its case against the action of the spring I) when the pipe is removed.

I may prefer to have the valve automatic in its action; but I do not desire to limit my invention in this repect, as it may be positively operated by means of a threaded rod or stem 0 engaging a threaded opening in the cross-bar c, as shown in Fig. 3.

From the above description it will be seen that the mouth ofthe bowl of the pipe may be closed substantially tight when the pipe is placed in the case, so that the pipe-case may be carried in the pocket of the smoker in any position without danger of the ashes falling out into the case. The member a of the pipe-case may also be provided with a holding device to enable smaller sizes of pipes to be used in the same case. The holding device may be made as shown, and consists of a forkd on a rod d, extended through the case and screw-threaded at its outer end to engage a threaded hole in a brace or bar 01 the said rod having thereon an adjusting-nut (1 by which the forkd may be engaged with the stems of pipes of various sizes placed within the case.

I claim- 1. The combination with a tobacco-pipe case comprising two members hinged together and adapted to receive the bowl and attached stem of a smokers pipe, of a cover or valve for the mouth of the bowl of said pipe located within the bowl portion of one of said members and movable toward and from the top or upper wall of the said pipe, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a tobacco-pipe case comprising two members hinged to gether and adapted to receive the bowl and attached stem of a smokers pipe, a cross-bar attached to the top Wall of one of said members, of a cover or valve for the mouth of the bowl of said pipe located within the bowl portion of one of said members and having a stem extended through said cross-bar, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a tobacco-pipe case comprising two members hinged together and adapted to receive the bowl and attached stem of a sniokers pipe, of a cover or Valve for the mouth of the bowl of said pipe located within the bowl portion of one of said members and movable toward and from the top or upper Wall thereof, and an adjustable holding device carried by one of said esonss members and adapted to engage the stem of 16 the pipe, substantially as described In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. 7

JOHN H. TIERNEY. Vitnesses:

MAURICE F. QCoNNoR ARTHUR T. OLEARY. 

